Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,

Lazarus

Was laid

General references

Bible References

A certain

Luke 18:35
As He was approaching Jericho [on His way to Jerusalem], it happened that a blind man was sitting beside the road begging.
1 Samuel 2:8

“He raises up the poor from the dust,
He lifts up the needy from the ash heap
To make them sit with nobles,
And inherit a seat of honor and glory;
For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
And He set the land on them.
James 1:9
Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position [as a born-again believer, called to the true riches and to be an heir of God];
James 2:5
Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters: has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and [as believers to be] heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?

Lazarus

John 11:1
Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

Was laid

Acts 3:2
and a man who had been unable to walk from birth was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at that gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, so that he could beg alms from those entering the temple.

Full

Luke 16:21
He [eagerly] longed to eat the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Besides, even the dogs were coming and licking his sores.
Job 2:7
So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord and struck Job with loathsome boils and agonizingly painful sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.
Psalm 34:19

Many hardships and perplexing circumstances confront the righteous,
But the Lord rescues him from them all.
Psalm 73:14

For all the day long have I been stricken,
And punished every morning.
Isaiah 1:6

From the sole of the foot even to the head
There is nothing healthy in the nation’s body,
Only bruises, welts, and raw wounds,
Not pressed out or bandaged,
Nor softened with oil [as a remedy].
Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has not the [spiritual] health of the daughter of my people been restored?

General references

Proverbs 28:6

Better is the poor who walks in his integrity
Than he who is crooked and two-faced though he is rich.
Luke 17:27
the people were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, [they were indifferent to God] until the day that Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.